Duke. Why, this is strange; go, call the abbess hither; I think, you are all mated, or stark mad. [Ex. one to the abbess. Ageon. Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word: Haply, I fee a friend will fave my life, And pay the sum that may deliver me. Duke. Speak freely, Syracusan, what thou wilt. And is not that your bondman Dromio? E. Dro. Within this hour I was his bond-man, fir, For lately we were bound as you are now. Ægeon. Why look you strange on me? you know me well. Ægeon. O, grief hath chang'd me fince you faw me last, And careful hours with time's deformed hand But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? Ægeon. Dromio, nor thou? And And all the conduits of my blood froze up; Tell me thou art my fon Antipholis. E. Ant. I never saw my father in my life. Ægeon. But seven years fince, in Syracufa's bay, Thou know'st, we parted; but, perhaps, my fon, Thou sham'st t' acknowledge me in misery. E. Ant. The duke, and all that know me in the city, Can witness with me that it is not fo: I ne'er saw Syracufa in my life. Duke. I tell thee, Syracufan, twenty years Have I been patron to Antipholis, SCENE VII. Enter the Abbess, with Antipholis Syracufan and Abb. Moft mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd. [All gather to see them. Adr. I fee two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me. And fo of these which is the natural man, S. Dro. I, fir, am Dromio; command him away. Abb. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, And gain a husband by his liberty. That i That bore thee at a burthen two fair fons ? Duke. Why, here begins his morning story right: These two Antipholis's, two so like, Ægeon. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, Duke. Antipholis, thou cam'st from Corinth first. E. Ant. Brought to this town by that most famous warrior, Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to-day? Adr. And are not you my husband? E. Ant. No; I say, nay, to that. S. Ant. And fo do I, yet did she call me so: And this fair gentlewoman her fifter here Ang. That is the chain, fir, which you had of me. S. Ant. S. Ant. I think, it be, fir; I deny it not. S. Ant. This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you, And Dromio my man did bring them me: E. Ant. These ducats pawn I for my father here. To go with us into the abbey here, And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes : After so long grief such felicity! Duke. With all my heart I'll gossip at this feaft. [Exeunt. S. Dro. Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard? : 1 S. Dro. Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the centaur. S. Ant. He speaks to me; I am your master, Dromio. Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon; Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. [Exe. the two Antiph. S. Dro. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner : She now shall be my sister, not my wife. E. Dro. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother: I fee by you, I am a sweet-fac'd youth. Will you walk in to fee their gossiping? S. Dro. Not I, fir; you're my elder. How shall I try it? S. Dro. We'll draw cuts for the senior: 'Till then, lead thou first. E. Dro. Nay, then thus [Embracing. We came into the world like brother and brother: |